What's New in Adaxes 2016

Adaxes 2016 is a cumulative update that contains many performance and usability
improvements. Important bug fixes are also included.

The new release provides extended support for Exchange. In particular, we added the
long-awaited possibility to create and delete remote mailboxes. Also, it is now possible to
manage storage quotas in Exchange Online and enable or disable the OWA for Devices
mailbox feature.

This is a recommended update for customers using Adaxes 2014.1 and 2015. All customers having a
license for Adaxes 2014.1 and 2015 can upgrade to Adaxes 2016 free of charge.

Exchange

Support for Remote Mailboxes

Starting from the new version, Adaxes supports creating remote mailboxes in hybrid
environments. This allows you to route mail to users from both
your on-premises and Exchange Online organizations. In addition to that, we've added the
possibility to create remote resource mailboxes and remote mailbox archives using scripts.

OWA for Devices Mailbox Feature

Now, you have the possibility to enable and disable the OWA
for Devices Feature of Exchange mailboxes.

Storage Quotas for Exchange Online Mailboxes

In the new version, you can define storage quotas not only for mailboxes
located on premises, but also for Exchange Online mailboxes.

Automation

External Email Address Template

From now on, when configuring the Establish Email Address action, you can specify a
template for the external email address that will be assigned to users or groups mail-enabled
by the action. This can be helpful if you want to assign an address that is different
from their email address specified in the Email property.

Create Mailboxes when Enabling Users

If you create users with disabled accounts that are enabled on their first work-day, you
can automatically create Exchange mailboxes for them when enabling the accounts.
For this purpose, Business Rules triggered on enabling a user account support the
Create Exchange Mailbox action.

Logging

Storing Log Records on External Servers

We've added the possibility to use MS SQL databases located outside of your network
to store Adaxes logs. This includes Windows Azure SQL, Amazon Web Services SQL
services, and also other external MS SQL servers.

Performance

In response to multiple requests, we've optimized the performance and stability of the
mechanisms used to access Office 365 and Exchange Online. Special attention has been paid
to large environments with several thousand users in the cloud.

And More!

Office 365

We've added support for the Yammer Enterprise Office 365 service.

Exchange

You can now configure
Adaxes to use only specific Exchange Servers. This allows you to restrict connections to
slowly responding or heavily loaded servers.

Now, you can specify hold duration when putting a mailbox on Litigation Hold.

Web Interface

The ampersand ('&') character is now supported in URLs passed by the
Link to Specific URL Home Page Action.

Administration Console

Now, when inserting a value reference, you can filter properties not only by their
display name, but also by their LDAP name.

Fixed a time synchronization issue in the logging system. Typical symptoms of the
issue are as follows: log records are not synchronized to an external logging database,
and the following error appears in
Adaxes Event Log: